Edward Rooke

Edward Rooke is a historical horror author based in Wichita, Kansas, and Curator of Black Anchor Publishing Group. His fiction explores faith, folklore, obsession, and violence. He is the author of The Last Sounding and curator of Yuletide: A Very Black Winter, and is developing The Tying Tree.

With Scottish, Irish, Welsh, and Scandinavian ancestry, his interest in European history is personal. He is drawn to inherited beliefs, religious traditions, and stories whose origins have been forgotten. Historical research is a lifelong passion and a foundation of his writing.

His love of horror began watching Tales from the Crypt with his grandmother and reading alone in the dark. He retains a love of old pulp horror, gothic atmosphere, and the grotesque. Away from work, he spends time with his three daughters and grandchildren and carries the memory of Nora, his late childhood sweetheart and truest love.